Different shades of Mubarak moment

At last that moment has come! They say its a moment of truth too.

Trust me, this word came from the street; we saw it's ripple effect from middle east to Africa, Africa to Europe, Europe to United States, there to China, China to India, then JK to Delhi, Delhi to TN, TN to Kerala, Kerala to K’taka and the list will go on. This is the enigma called the Mubarak Moment.

The people have lived a dream for this moment. Bound by common frustrations and propelled by hopes, they have joined hands, and it resulted in the moment of truth. Events rapidly unfolding in the world may signal that this is not just the M moment, but a moment of truth. It took 30 years and 18 days for Egyptians to wake up, so is Husni Mubarak, who tasted the grape wine of power for years and years, amassing enormous wealth and ironically, the hatred of his people. He had very little time to read the writing on the wall, yet , he managed to flee for life from the country of bloody battle. No matter toothless, for him, life is life. Another moment of truth!

Tale of Tunisia is no different; the death of one educated youth propelled the rebellion and at last autocrat Ben Ali had to surrender the precious moment to Tunisians. Till last moment, these rulers were weighing on the threat of an Islamic takeover if they step down. The only thing they have to pretend is wear a secular cap and do anything that violates the fundamental rights of the people. You have to have the mask of secularism to kill your own people. The moment was waiting to happen in many Arab countries, Libya took up, Oman, Bahrain, Yemen, Ivory Coast and many countries are carrying on, the so called Kings’ defence became waterloo. They wait for the beginning of the end.

Though the repressive regimes kept their territories safe, the people’s urge for reprisal morphed into a hatred of the US. These countries wealth was never oil, but it’s civilisation.

Damn sure, Man Mohan Singh’s ‘guru’, Obama is going to feel the pinch of the moment in the next elections. And in last, but not least, it is going to be a tightrope walk for our neighbour Pakistan. The clerical tsunami in the PK will vanish; the Mubarak moment is waiting to come there. The revolutions have been betrayed the people, but the moment of truth will survive and in mind for ever.

PM’s moment of truth

Man Mohanji UPA- version No 1 was not a ‘weak’ prime minister when there were people to back him from Left, right and elsewhere. Now things have changed for the worse, with coalition dharma off the track. Grapewine is that he has little idea about what is happening in the country, and the world, except in the US! Remember those supercilious words from the horse’s mouth. “Now we are changed and we have no time to teach others the ABC of democracy.” Wow! Democratic India has changed. I could see   Man Mohanji on a run to join the bandwagon of the very M moment. Domestic conditions are suitable for this, from 2G to S-deal and CWG to CVC, the professor Moricarty had lest remembered the Gandhian values. Despite his grand economic plans, the unbridgeable divide between the billion dollar people and millions living in slums continues to widen. He is a man of deals, I should say, the king of deals. Remember the nuclear deal saga, an image makeover act. Nonetheless, his cabinet colleagues, like Raja, were also pitched into the world of ‘deals’, and got their deals right, though cost the Rs, 1.76 000000000000 lakh. Singh is King, but, Man Mohanji UPA- version No 2 is not.

The UPA’s confidence deficit raj is evident in all matters, from Telangana to Tamil fishermen issue and scoring self goals with Pak, he is really groping in the dark, waiting for the true light to come in right moment. Nobody is putting spanner in his work, but Singh is whining.

Kerala’s temerity

Gone are the days when tea was national drink, of the state. The state soon to declare rum as its official drink; and is indirectly pays a heavy cost due to illness, loss of productivity, death and crimes caused. Holiday or no, morning or evening there is a long queue of people in front of wine shops. The state, as an onlooker, is waiting for that moment. Be it development or polls, Kerala has its own style. The oscillating movement of power sharing between two fronts can be an eye opener for the nation. The state bunked five years for getting into the international IT map. When elections come calling, the Left government is stepping out of its skin to catch the development bus. Reasons unknown, the people allow the Left and the Right attain the M moment every five years of ruling, a significant phenomenon in the country, others can emulate.

Karnataka’s pain

The regressive political formation bereft of politics looks like a circus in Chief Minister Yeddyurappa’s land. Yeddys will come and go, the state won’t change. MLAs, irrespective of party colours, will switch loyalty, give lectures about community, insider-outsider fight and will conduct more Kannada sammelanas in 2050 also. A Mubarak moment in the offing? Not sure.